On Easter Monday I’ll be appearing on Steffen Peddie’s Chat Show Thing at the Newcastle Stand Comedy Club. It’s a chat show, live with no cameras and no censor. You might recall Steffan from the sitcom Hebburn where he played Big Keith. It’s quite exciting and a chance for comics and performer from the North East to talk about their stuff.  I’ll be talking about Danny Pensive, Where I got started, showbiz anecdotes and other stuff. Also on the bill id Simon Donald from the Viz, so it should be a great night. Tickets are only £3 and you can get them here.

I’ve only ever done it in videos games, but there’s something particularity satisfying about watching a helicopter shot out of the sky with a rocket launcher then falling to the ground with a large explosion. Revolution knows this. The show has done well enough do earn a full season and with a UK air date now confirmed later this month, now is a good time to get on board. Read more over at SFX…

A quick google found her website, I fired off an email and got a response, we had a quick email chat and I got a bit nostalgic. It was her, she was living in London and was still in touch with a few guys I knew from the Art course, who are now working as working as proper artists, Wow. I sometimes forget how much I love and art making pictures. Actually no. I still do a bit of illustration and I love it. I’d like to have another go at becoming an artist, but the think I’m too commercially aware/corrupted to do proper art.

I think studying art at university is possibly where my attitude towards comedy has derived from. I presented stuff to the world on a wall and let it be judged. Some liked what I did, some didn’t and that’s fine. That’s a really broad metaphor. What’s the difference between an artist and an entertainer? I reckon one says ‘this is what I do’ and presents their view of the world in an reasonably uncompromising way, whereas the other adapts to the audience and in the moment. I know I’ve been guilty of the former, I think it come from a fear not wanting to be a comic who has stands on stage and prioritises what the audience want to hear over what they want to say. That’s not proper comedy to me. That’s is probably why and don’t have a shiny face.

Check out my old uni mates websites and see their artwork:

http://www.laylacurtis.com

http://www.dominicwilcox.com

and then there’s me,

http://www.johncooperunlimited.co.uk

God bless you Charlie Holmes, wherever you are.

A splash image from the Graphic novel I did as part of my final year at Sunderland University.

A drunk chicken. Ink and brush. I’d like to think my linework is still this precise for a peice done on A4, but it’s probably not.

I look at the wife’s bum a fair bit,  I love her and shes’ got a nice bottom. She took up roller derby about a year ago, and even though she’s smashed her ankle to bits and has to use crutches and a old mobility trolley to feed herself I’m still totally supportive of her getting back up and playing again when she’s better.

There’s this website called ‘Roller Derby Butts‘ which I found recently, actually no the missus found it. It had lots of nice photo’s of Roller Derby players on it, so I submitted a one of my missus, nice and tasteful. It went up on the website, but by the next day all the photos had disappeared except for a few and now I feel like a dodgy pervert for sending it.
Is it all right to look at the bottoms of  women that play roller derby? I do it quite a lot. I think I’m ok, I’m married and everything.

I’ve found the best time to go to the new big Tesco’s ot get all the reduced stuff. I got a big piece of mango and chive cheese for 11 pence and a slice of chicken and pork pie for 8 pence, reduced from £1.20.

*Working/speaking/playing arena gigs/had a stroke/alive

Oh hang on, they did show the bit at the end. The bit where I look like a massive knob. Hurray!

It’s not proper comedy, it’s that character stuff. Go on, bugger off here: www.dannypensive.co.uk